David Shier
Associate Professor and Chair
Ph.D., Wayne State University
Office: Bryan Hall 316A
Phone: 509-335-1415
E-mail: shier@wsu.edu
Fall 2009 Office Hours
Mon, Tue, Wed & Thu 9:00-10:25
and by appointment
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of language, history of analytic philosophy
Other Areas of Research & Teaching Interest
Logic, philosophy of mind, epistemology
Fall 2009 Courses
- UH 280: Contextual Understanding in the Arts & Humanities
- PHIL 510: Seminar in the History of Philosophy
Representative Publications
- "The Temporal Stage Fallacy: A Novel Statistical Fallacy in the Medical Literature" (2006), in Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy (with J. Lee Tilson).
- Law and Social Justice (2005, MIT Press). Topics in Contemporary Philosophy, Volume 3 (with Campbell and O'Rourke).
- Freedom and Determinism (2004, MIT Press). Topics in Contemporary Philosophy, Volume 2 (with Campbell and O'Rourke).
- Meaning and Truth: Investigations in Philosophical Semantics. (2002, Seven Bridges Press). Topics in Contemporary Philosophy, Volume 1 (with Campbell and O'Rourke).
- "Can Human Rationality be Defended A Priori?" (2000). Behavior and Philosophy 28, 67-81.
- "Why Kant Finds Nothing Ugly" (1998). The British Journal of Aesthetics 38, 412-418.
- "How Can Pictures Be Propositions?" (1997). Ratio 10, 65-75.
- "The Two-Envelope Paradox Resolved" (1997). Analysis 57, 28-33 (with McGrew and Silverstein).
- "Direct Reference for the Narrow Minded" (1996). Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 77, 225-248.
Links
- American Philosophical Association
- Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- The Philosophers Magazine Online
- Jonathan Bennett's "Early Modern Texts"
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